Ricardo Carvalho has been handed a jail sentence for fraud
Former Chelsea and Real Madrid defender Ricardo Carvalho has been sentenced to seven months in prison and fined 142,882 euros [£128,222] for crimes against the Spanish tax authority, a Spanish court filing said.
Carvalho is the latest player to have fallen foul of tax law in Spain.
Spanish law is such that any sentence under two years for a non-violent crime rarely requires a defendant without previous convictions to serve jail time.
Carvalho, 39, who now plays for Chinese Super League outfit Shanghai SIPG, was found guilty of hiding income from image rights in 2011 and 2012 while playing for Real, where he played between 2010 and 2013, avoiding 545,981 euros in tax.
He returned the amount and pleaded guilty to the charges, which the court said in a statement lead to his sentence being reduced from the Spanish public prosecutor’s recommendation of 12 months in prison with a 300,000 euro fine.
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